Pictures of the day: 3 January 2017

Skiers walk in a snowless landscape in the Swiss Alps resort of les Crosets. Switzerland has just experienced its driest December in more than 150 years and one of its driest months on record, meteorologists said. Many places in the west of the country did not see a single snowflake or drop of rain, it said, pointing out that usually the Swiss plains get nearly 90 millimetres of precipitation on average in December.